Assembler/machine language is alive, well, and thriving in your monitor, keyboard controller, car computers, microwave oven, TV, VCR, stereo, modems, etc. In short, there is a large subculture out there using nothing else.
I started on 8080 machine language. Yes it can be ugly but making it work can be a real thrill. Kudos to those who can pull off an OS using it.
Nice to see Slackware surviving. I'm a little leery of automation, like to know what's going on behind the screen. Patrick's distros are ideal for me so have kept on using it in the face of the "improvements". I'll be buying it. Voting with your money is the only sure way to keep your favorite distros going, whatever they be. Downloading is nice but they need to make a living too. I'm still on 3.2.
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Learned something new here - Something will outlive the cockroaches...
Remember having to open up aircraft fuel tanks in SEA because bacteria were growing in the jet fuel and plugging up the works.
Assembler/machine language is alive, well, and thriving in your monitor, keyboard controller, car computers, microwave oven, TV, VCR, stereo, modems, etc. In short, there is a large subculture out there using nothing else.
I started on 8080 machine language. Yes it can be ugly but making it work can be a real thrill. Kudos to those who can pull off an OS using it.
Nice to see Slackware surviving. I'm a little
leery of automation, like to know what's going on
behind the screen. Patrick's distros are ideal for
me so have kept on using it in the face of the
"improvements".
I'll be buying it. Voting with your money is the only sure way to keep your favorite distros going, whatever they be. Downloading is nice but they need to make a living too.
I'm still on 3.2.